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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 7875102, member: 120820&quot;]It&#039;s certainly impressive work, but I think it&#039;s a matter of personal preference whether it makes the coin more collectible or not (especially once you realize it was repaired in such a major way - it <u>looks</u> better, but is no longer fully authentic).</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually quite like holed coins since it&#039;s part of their history that tells you something about them ... not just the individual history of that coin, but sometimes something more when you seen patterns in what types were holed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Holed coins of course also have the major advantage of being a lot less expensive than they might otherwise be!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one of mine that I&#039;m rather fond of:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1357204[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I do also have other not-holed (and more expensive) specimens of the type, but what I like about this one is that an atypically disproportionate number of this type are holed, which tells us something about how they were viewed back in the day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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